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A Hammer in Their Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American Experience
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by Carroll W. Pursell
Sales Rank: 258352
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Cover Type: Paperback with 415 pages
Published by: The MIT Press; New Ed edition September 1, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0262661993
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0262661997
Book Dimensions:
8.7 x 6.9 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
"Despite recent scholarly emphasis on both race and technology as highly contested and contingent historical phenomena, the interrelationship between these two fields of studies and African-American history remains insufficiently appreciated and acknowledged. This fine collection of primary sources not only illuminates the role of African Americans in the development of a broad range of technologies over nearly three centuries, but also suggests an intellectual framework for a broader synthesis of technology and reace in the development of American culture and society."
--Joe W. Trotter, Mellon Professor and Head, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, author of The African American Experience and River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley
Product Description
Scholars working at the intersection of African-American history and the history of technology are redefining the idea of technology to include the work of the skilled artisan and the ingenuity of the self-taught inventor. Although denied access through most of American history to many new technologies and to the privileged education of the engineer, African-Americans have been engaged with a range of technologies, as makers and as users, since the colonial era. A Hammer in Their Hands (the title comes from the famous song about John Henry, "the steel-driving man" who beat the steam drill) collects newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography and fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African-Americans.
Included in this rich and varied collection are a letter from Cotton Mather describing an early method of smallpox inoculation brought from Africa by a slave; selections from Frederick Douglass's autobiography and Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Confederate Patent Act, which barred slaves from holding patents; articles from 1904 by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois, debating the issue of industrial education for African-Americans; a 1924 article from Negro World, "Automobiles and Jim Crow Regulations"; a photograph of an all-black World War II combat squadron; and a 1998 presidential executive order on environmental justice. A Hammer in Their Hands and its companion volume of essays, Technology and the African-American Experience (MIT Press, 2004) will be essential references in an emerging area of study.
Published in cooperation with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution
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